Seminars
Spring 2024
9th July - Tara Finegan (University of Missouri) Beyond two dimensions: exploring epithelial monolayers in depth
6th June - Stan Strawbridge (University of Cambridge) Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation
3rd June - Swarnendu Banerjee (University of Amsterdam)
20th May - Juan Morales (University of Glasgow) Linking behaviour, space use, and population dynamics
29th Apr - Enrico Dall'Ara (University of Sheffield) Image-based finite element models for the assessment of skeletal diseases
15th Apr - Francesca Scarabel (University of Leeds) Numerical methods for structured population models
18th Mar- Philip Pearce (University College London) Some consequences of phenotypic heterogeneity in living active matter
4th Mar - Michael Clerx (University of Nottingham) Estimating parameters for biological time-series models: lessons learned from a deep dive into ion channel modelling
26th Feb - Carina Dunlop (University of Surrey) What do cells and tissues feel? The integration of cell contractility, growth and adhesion in mechanosensing
Previous Speakers
Autumn 2023
27th Nov - Lewis Bartlett (University of Georgia)
13th Nov - Alexandria Volkening (Purdue University)
6th Nov - Tyler Cassidy (University of Leeds)
30th Oct - Lydia Buckingham (University of Bath)
2nd Oct - Andrew Krause (University of Durham)
Autumn 2022
5th Dec - Thomas Hiscock (University of Aberdeen)
28th Nov - Jessica Crawshaw (University of Oxford)
21st Nov - Chris Revell (University of Manchester)
14th Nov - Alex Fletcher (University of Sheffield)
31st Oct - Cara Brook (University of Chicago) Reservoir host immunology and life history shape virulence evolution in zoonotic viruses
17th Oct - Laura Wadkin (Newcastle University) Modelling the spread of tree diseases and invasive pests
10th Oct - Alex Best (University of Sheffield) The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases
Spring 2022
3rd May - Domenic Germano (University of Melbourne) A realistic model of simple epithelia, and modelling boundaries of epithelial tissues
29th Aug - Paulo Godolphim (Universidad de Chile) Vertex model micro-mechanical validation in fish embryo morphogenesis
Autumn 2021
White Rose Mathematical Biology Seminar Series (held online, jointly with the Universities of Leeds and York)
20th Oct - Nicole Mideo (University of Toronto, Canada) Understanding variation in malaria infection dynamics
27th Oct - Ricardo Martinez-Garcia (ICTP – SAIFR, Brazil) Beyond the law of mass action in ecology: the effect of range-residency on encounter statistics
3rd Nov - Amy Hurford (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) Challenges and insights from modelling COVID-19 in a region where most cases are travel-related
10th Nov - Rachel Warnock (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) A phylogenetic approach to unifying models in life and earth sciences
17th Nov - Yamir Moreno (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) A data-driven perspective for the mathematical modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic
Autumn 2020
White Rose Mathematical Biology Seminar Series (held online, jointly with the Universities of Leeds and York)
21st Oct - Helen Alexander (Edinburgh) Stochastic establishment of antibiotic resistance
28th Oct - Fordyce Davidson (Dundee) The Architecture of Biofilms
4th Nov - Matthew Hartfield (Edinburgh) Adaptation and self-fertilisation
18th Nov - Francesco Iorio (Human Technopole, Milan, Italy) CRISPR-cas9 screens and multi-omic data integration for identifying and new cancer therapeutic targets
25th Nov - Katrina Lythgoe (Oxford) Short-sighted viruses
2nd Dec - Mariya Ptashnyk (Heriot-Watt) Multiscale modelling of plants: Coupling between mechanics, chemistry and growth
9th Dec - Philip O'Neill (Nottingham) Statistical Inference for epidemic models via likelihood approximation
Autumn 2019
21st Oct - Raluca Eftimie (Dundee)
4th Nov - Adriana Dawes (Ohio State) Mechanical constraints play a critical role in protein segregation and morphogenesis in the early C. elegans embryo
18th Nov - Rastko Sknepnek (Dundee) Self-propelled Vertex Model for Cell-Resolution Description of Epithelial Tissue Mechanics
2nd Dec - Katrina Lythgoe (Oxford) Short-sighted viruses
16th Dec - Thomas Clay (Liverpool) A movement ecology approach to understanding seabird responses to atmospheric conditions
Spring 2019
11th Feb - Ildar Sadreev (Bristol) A systems model of STAT proteins activation in molecular networks
25th Feb - Ruben Perez (UCL) Degradation rate uniformity determines success of oscillations in gene regulatory networks
11th Mar - David Shorthouse (Cambridge) A Functional Role for Ion Channels in Cancer
29th Apr - Berta Verd (Cambridge) Modularity, criticality, and evolvability of a developmental gene regulatory network
13th May - Nuria Folguera Blasco (Crick) Mathematical modelling of cell fate
Autumn 2018
1st Oct - Rachel Bearon (Liverpool) Revisiting Jeffery orbits; the importance of shape for micro-organism transport
15th Oct - Helen Kettle (BIOSS) Modelling Microbial Dynamics: communities, networks and feedbacks
29th Oct - Elaine Ferguson (Glasgow) Modelling collective movement across scales: from cells to wildebeest
12th Nov - George Constable (Bath) Why do most isogamous species have so few mating types, yet some have so many?
26th Nov - Elaine Crooks (Swansea) Invasion speeds in a competition-diffusion model with mutation
10th Dec - Rachel Norman (Stirling) Using mathematical models to understand tick borne pathogen dynamics and control in a multi-host system with multiple transmission routes
Spring 2018
7th Feb - Ben Ashby (Bath) Sex, parasites and coevolution
19th Feb - David Miller (St Andrews)
19th Mar - Cameline Orlendo (Glasgow) The evolution of sheep immunity in response to nematode infection
16th Apr - Natasha Savage (Liverpool) Where to draw one’s theoretical boundary: One closed question, one experimental data set, two published models, two opposing answers.
23rd Apr - Jochen Kursawe (Manchester) Initiation and interpretation of transcription factor dynamics during embryonic neurogenesis
Autumn 2017
2nd Oct - Etienne Farcot (Nottingham) Examples of Boolean modelling in plant development
17th Oct - Andrew Morozov (Leicester) Revisiting the concept of evolutionary fitness in systems with inheritance.
30th Oct - Mukul Tewary In vitro models of early developmental morphogenesis using human pluripotent stem cells
13th Nov - Natalia Petrovskaya (Birmingham) Spatial patterns arising in a model of biological invasion with short-distance and long-distance dispersal.
27th Nov - Philip Greulich (Southampton) Mathematical modelling of clonal stem cell dynamics
4th Dec - James Stone (Sheffield) Metabolic Efficiency: A Design Principle For Neural Information Processing?
Spring 2017
6th Feb - Torbjorn Lundh (Chalmers) Four surgery problems “solved” by a “mathematical” approach.
20th Feb - Gary Mirams (Nottingham) Cardiac electrophysiology modelling for drug safety testing.
27th Feb - David Grimes (Centre for Advanced and Interdisciplinary Radiation Research, Queen’s University Belfast) Modelling the influence of the oxygen micro-environment on radiotherapy treatment response and tumour evolution.
20th Mar - Louise Riotte-Lambert (Glasgow) Consequences of memory-based movement at the individual and population levels.
24th Apr - Mirela Domijan (Liverpool) Modeling insights into the behaviour and function of the Arabidopsis circadian clock.
8th May - Steve Webb (Liverpool John Moores) Development and mathematical modelling of liver bioreactors for in vitro to in vivo extrapolation of systemic chemical toxicity.
Autumn 2016
26th Sept - Jamie Wood (York) Modelling bacteria: How can mathematics contribute to combatting AMR?
17th Oct - Jason Matthiopoulos (Glasgow) Quantitative Ecology: Linking statistical models of habitat preference with mathematical models of population dynamics.
24th Oct - Attila Csikasz-Nagy (KCL) Systems level understanding of cell polarity regulation.
7th Nov - Nigel Burroughs (Warwick) Tension-clock regulation of microtube polymerisation state generates pseudo-periodic chromosome oscillations.
21st Nov - Ben Macarthur (Southampton) Stochastic models of stem cells.
28th Nov - Stanley Strawbridge (Cambridge) Understanding the dynamics of embryonic stem cell differentiation.
5th Dec - Angela Oliveira Pisco (KCL) Modelling the postnatal dermal maturation process during skin development.
Spring 2016
25th Jan 2016 - Dan Nichol (Oxford) Steering evolution with sequential therapy to prevent the emergence of drug resistance
15th Feb 2016 - Katie Atkins (LSHTM) Using a mathematical model to evaluate pertussis control through maternal vaccination
29th Feb 2016 - Roy Chaudhuri (Sheffield) Throwing a spanner in the works: analysis of gene essentiality using transposon insertion sequencing (TraDIS)
6th Mar 2016 - Linus Schumacher (Oxford) Oligarchy in collective cell migration
14th Mar 2016 - Nikolai Bode (Bristol) Modelling group movement
4th Apr 2016 - Sara Merino Aceituno (Imperial) Kinetic theory to study emergent phenomena in biology: an example on swarming
11th Apr 2016 - Phillip Murray (Dundee) DNA double strand break repair - a theoretical framework and its application
25th Apr 2016 - Ernest Turro (Cambridge) Identifying the genetic determinants of rare disorders using deep phenotyping and genome sequencing
9th May 2016 - Glenn Marion (BioSS) Insights and estimates from process based models: doing statistics with dynamics
Autumn 2015
6th Oct 2015 - Nick Phillips (Manchester) Modelling and analysis of oscillations in gene expression through neural development
20th Oct 2015 - Guillaume Salbreux (Crick Institute) Physics of tissue morphogenesis
3rd Nov 2015 - Luca Borger (Swansea) Modelling stationarity, diffusivity and individual variability in animal movement and population spread
24th Nov 2015 - Alex Fletcher (Sheffield) Mathematical modelling of epithelial dynamics: from cells to tissues
1st Dec 2015 - Christina Cobbold (Glasgow) Moving in a patchy world
8th Dec 2015 - Ryo Yamaguchi (Kyushu) A point of no return in parapatric speciation
15th Dec 2015 -Andrew Economou (KCL) Periodic patterning in the mammalian palate: towards a higher order morphogen network
Spring 2015
16th Feb 2015 - Yun Tao (UC Davis) Transient Movement Ecology: Methods and Applications
5th Mar 2015 - Edd Codling (Essex) Beyond movement analysis: using movement and behavioural data to detect health and welfare status in dairy cows
16th Mar 2015 - Arief Gusnato (Leeds) Statistical modelling and inference of next-generation sequence data
27th Apr 2015 - Jon Pitchford (York) Biological networks: Real, complex or imaginary?
1st May 2015 - Ed Morrissey (Cambridge) Stem cell dynamics in homoeostasis and cancer
11th May 2015 - Kevin Gurney (Sheffield) Building models at different scales in neuroscience: a case study with the basal ganglia